Breakdance, red eyed penguins, Vikings, grunge and straight rock'n'roll: The construction of place in musical discourse in Rudenga, east side Oslo

Conceptualising the Relationship Between Youth, Music and DIY Careers: A Critical Overview

“…This ranges from text-based studies of youth cultural formations (Chambers, 1985; Hebdige, 1979) through to ethnographic explorations of issues such as music’s bearing on youth cultural articulations of local identity (Bennett, 2000) and the embodied significance of music and style (Driver, 2011; Willis, 1978). Although much of this work initially focused more or less exclusively on Anglo-American contexts, this is no longer the case, with increasing attention now being paid to the importance of music and style as cultural resources for youth outside the Anglo-American world (see, for example, Feixa Pàmpols and Porzio, 2005; Pilkington, 1994; Shade-Poulsen, 1995; Vestal, 1999; Wang, 2005). Moreover, an emerging literature on ageing and youth culture is beginning to reveal that many of the leisure and lifestyle practices once firmly associated with people’s teens and early twenties are now continuing to form the bedrock of lifestyle practices and aspirations of adults well into their ‘post-youth’ years (Bennett, 2013; Bennett and Hodkinson, 2012; Haenfler, 2006).…”

The Art of Articulation: Political Engagement and Social Movements in the Making among Young Adults in Multicultural Settings in Norway

“…We find, for example, rappers among the Maori in New Zealand, young Basques in Spain, Sapmi in Norway, so-called 'sling shot' hip hoppers in Palestine, all contributing to what one of our informants termed 'the hip hop rainbow', 3 pointing to the diversity and the transnational dimension of this subculture [see Mitchell (2001) and Tarrow (2009) on similar transnational connections]. In the 1980s, hip hop reached Norway, with Oslo as its initial centre (Vestel, 1999(Vestel, , 2009aHolen, 2004). In recent times, several artists of immigrant background have explicitly focused on a range of immigrant-related issues in Norway (e.g.…”

Norse Myth and Identity in Swedish Viking Metal: Imagining Heritage and a Leisure Community

“…The rather essentialist view celebrates heritage and ancestry not only as themes, but are somehow perceived as real, true ancient stories as well as fantasy stories [8]. This perception manifests a stylized Nordicness full of enchantment and catchiness drawing loosely on a past that becomes a source for an imaginary place, [9] a local or national scene that plays with connections to the heathen past. Markers for this imaginary place are heavily utilized in iconography.…”